Claes Oldenburg / Barbara Rose
New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn. 1970. First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #335221
Physical description; 221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 37 cm. Contents; Introduction -- Part 1 : Life and Art -- Portrait of the Artist -- In the American Grain -- The Street : A Metamorphic Mural -- Land of Our Pilgrims' Pride -- Hero of a Thousand Faces -- The Ray Gun Manufacturing Company -- Color Plates : The Store -- The Soft Machines -- The Public Image -- Color Plates : Drawings for Monuments and Landscapes -- Part II : The Metamorphoses of Form -- From the Wall to the Floor -- Reality through the Haze -- The Baroque Style of Mr. Anonymous -- The World Is Not a Drawing -- Totems and Taboos -- Paradise Regained : The Past Recaptured -- Ray Gun Unmasked -- Appendix : The Theater of Action -- Selections from Oldenburg's Writings -- Chronology. Subjects; Oldenberg, Claes (1929-) ; Exhibitions. Oldenburg, Claes (1929-) Criticism and interpretation. Oldenburg, Claes (1929-) ; Catalogs. Oldenburg, Claes Studies. Art, American 20th century ; Exhibitions. Artists United States 20th century. Genres; Bibliography. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogues. Illustrated.
Price: €60.00